Продам: A.A.Arapov, illustration to Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "The Dead Princess"

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Arapov Anatoly Afanasevich (1876-1949). He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1897-1906 at the architectural department. Even in college became interested in theater and participated in the design of the national theater festivals "buffoon", tried to organize a theater scenery. Exhibitor exhibitions: 1904 "Scarlet Rose", 1907 "Blue Rose," 1907-1908 "Crown Stefanos." Work in professional theater began in 1905, when the two paintings designed for the opera "Eugene Onegin" by PI Tchaikovsky Opera Studio Stanislavsky at Cook (director L. Sulerzhitskii). In 1910-1914 worked as a painter and decorator in theaters Komissarzhevskaya in St. Petersburg and in Moscow K. Nezlobin ("Faust", 1912). After the Revolution, issued several performances in different cities, "Posadnik" by the tragedy of Tolstoy (Maly Theatre, Moscow, 1918), "Don Carlos" Schiller (BDT, Petrograd), "Fuente Ovejuna," Lope de Vega (Kiev, 1919). In 1911 he traveled to Germany, Switzerland and Italy. In 1918-1920 he was a staff artist of the Bolshoi Theatre, and at this time the sketch sets and costumes for the opera "Parsifal" by Richard Wagner, the ballet "The Feast of the King", the individual acts of the opera "Queen of Spades" and "Swan Lake" by P. I. Tchaikovsky. At the same time he worked in other theaters, "Arina and Bluebeard" by M. Maeterlinck (Demonstration Theatre), "Pulcinella" Krasheninnikov (First District operating theater) "Corneville Bells" by R. Plunkett (Moscow comic opera). Member of the trade union painters of New Art (1918-1919) and the association "Art - Socialist Construction" 1932. In the second half of the 1920s he was in Rostov-on-Don, where the opera house designed for "Eugene Onegin" by PI Tchaikovsky's "Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo's "Faust" by Gounod, "Gondlu" play Gumilev. In the late 1920s he lived in Baku, where he worked in the theater Satiragit. After returning to Moscow designed productions in theaters Komissarzhevskaya, the Moscow Art Theater and Theater. MGSPS. At the same time he worked on the show "Baba" by Goldoni (MXT 2nd), "Rasteryaeva street" by Nikolai Uspensky (Little Theatre, 1929) - one of his best works. Also designed productions "Barbarians" by M. Gorky (New Theatre, Leningrad, 1937), the operetta "Merry Wives of Windsor" KO Nicolai (Musical Theatre. Stanislavsky and VI. Nemirovich-Danchenko, 1940), "The Lower Depths" (Saratov, 1946) and others also participated in the design of nine films. His works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Central Theater Museum, Saratov State Art Museum and others.

Arapov Anatoly Afanasevich (1876 - 1949)
Illustration for Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "The Dead Princess"
1949
Mixed media on paper
19.4 x 14 cm
Acquired from the artist's family:
On the reverse of the widow of the artist:
One of the 13 variants Prince Elisha tale of Alexander Pushkin "The Dead Princess," the latest work of Anatoly Afanasevicha October 1949 .. and the same subject was his first theme in his youth. A very strange coincidence.
Examination Valeria Silaeva charge.